Here blue indicates 1 publication, orange indicates 2 publications, pink indicates 3 publications and fuchsia indicates 6 publications. Width of the bubles are also varied according to number of publications.

Fig. 2 : Location of aut < ors having published Scientometrics papers on Bangladesh research

government to establish research strategies.

\ Conclusion: Through this study we invite philosophers, historians and sociologists of science, information technologists, and library professionals from different levels to do informetric study. They could collaborate more to get effective scientometric outputs. A multidisciplinary and wide field of informetrics i s waiting to receive efforts from Bangladeshi researchers. Multiple metrics, indicators and scientometric tools could used to measure research performance. Their study output will he1 p different research organizations an1

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